Humidor.



I. I. TEARNEY & G. L. ALEXANDER.

HUMIDOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV1 29.1915.

Patented Mam. 2'?, 1917.

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JOEE JOSEPH TEARNEY, OF TORONTO, AND GEORGE LAING ALEXANDER, OF AUBO Fi;

planer naaien@ ONTARIO, CANADA.

HUMIDOR.

The invention consists essentially in the l novel means employed wherebytobacco of the cigarettes or cigars is maintained in a moist conditionby means of a dampening arrangement in a particular form of suchdevices. l

The objects of the invention are to keep cigars and cigarettes in handydevices for instant use in a fit condition for smoking and generally toprovide a simple, serviceable and cheap article for the smoker.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of the device.

Fi 2 is a detail vertical sectional view showing the arrangements oftheside walls.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the outer casing which is here shown inopen box like form having standing upwardly from the bottom thereof acentral partition 2, the latter havingat the top thereof the curvedrecess 3 and terminating at each end adjacent to the walls of the saidcasing 1.

4 is the inner casing having the slot 5 at the top thereof correspondingtothe recessed top end of the partition 2, said partition just Aextending into the slot 5. v

The end walls of said inner casing 4 toward the bottom thereof areslotted at 5".

6 is a zinc lining extending over the inner surface of the walls of thecasing 1.

7 is a zinc covering on each side of the partition 2, said linings 6 and7 being to protect the wood from moisture.

8 is a zinc lining covering the underside of the top of the inner casingand extending downwardly therefrom and havin slots therein correspondingto the slots 5 in said casing. f

Specication of Letters lPatent.

I Application led November 29, 1915. Serial No. 63,991.

Patented Mar. 27, 191?.

9 are partitions preferably formed of zinc and sloping downwardly fromthe upper edges o the slots 5 to the central partitionv 2 and thenturned backwardly and secured on the under sides of the slots 5a and,forming the moisture chambers 10 for the reception of dampeningsubstances, such as wet blotting papers or other suitable pads, themoisture from which flows through the perforations in said partitions.

11 are pins extending outwardly from the ends of the inner casing 4 andsliding in the grooves 12 in the outer casin 1 to prevent said inner andouter casings rom becoming disengaged from each other.

It will now be seen that the cigarettes are contained Within the innercasing and supported on the inclined ways formed by the partitions 9over the moisture chambers 10,' therefore the tobacco of the saidcigarettes is retained in a comparatively moist state.

The Operation of the device is of course very simple as when the innercasing is raised the inner edges ofthepartitions 9 stop adjacent to thetop side edges of the partition 2 so that when the said inner casing islowered one cigar or cigarette will remain in the recess 3, but as thereare already devices operated somewhat similarly the novelty of thisinventionv consists in the specific construction and in the novel meansfor combining a'humidor and a delivering apparatus.

What we claim is:

A cigarette box or the like comprising a stationary section having acentral partition

